Zwei, my youngest, enters the bathroom interrupting my post-kid-bedtime bath. He announces, “I had a nightmare.”
Not wanting to get out of the bath to do the full comfort routine, especially after two nights of sleeping with kiddoes in hotel beds on our road trip, I ask, “What was your nightmare about?”
“Monsters,” he replies. He looks on the verge of tears.
SCORE! “Why would YOU be afraid of monsters? I mean, you’ve defeated thousands of them in your video games. Who is your most powerful character?”
He raises a fist in the air (I’m sure I have Eins to blame for that one). “Empo!” (Empo is the level gazillion second evolution Empoleon from his overplayed Pokemon Diamond game.)
“See. Empo has a move to keep away any monster.”
“Yeah!” He charges off to his bed.
Bath continues.
Haha!!!! I love it!
I used something similar with Kalen a couple of nights ago. The boys (especially Nicky) have become enamored of my dad’s Sherlock Holmes video collection. Kalen started sobbing at bedtime about the man having been shot, and how much it scared him. I finally calmed him down by asking how that was scarier than Indy plowing down a bunch of guys with a machine gun. Video games, movies…both great vanquishers of nighttime baddies!
Love this. Very creative! I can totally see this conversation. The virtues of video games. You should write a book with these little tidbits of wisdom.